Life — June 13, 1895 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Ail SEIS§ORS AVE NvLLy§ Iy the bonanza days, drinking or even having the odor of iquor about him was enough to insure the dismissal of 2 fine station-tender, engineer, or other employee in a responsible position. One day Uncle John Mackay,” as he miners called him, was riding down in the great three- ldecker cage with some friends, when he began to sniff the suspiciously, ‘1 smell w-whisky,” he said at last, with Ihis well-known stutter, There,” exclaimed the station- tender to one of his miner companions, ** I told that d—d barber not toputsomuch bay rum on my hair."—Argonaut. It wasa Tennessee Methodist class leader who had be- fore him a six months probationer whom he was question- ing for admission to all the privileges of the church. “Well, Sambo," said the class leader, ‘1 hope you are Prepared to live a Christian life in accordance with your profession. Have you stolen any chickens during the last six months?” “No, sah! I done stole no chickens. * Have you stolen any turkeys or pigs ?” Sambo looked grieved.‘ No, sab! 1” “1am very glad to hear this good report,” continued the class leader, “and I trust you will continue to live an honest, Christian life.” THe obsequiousness of inferiors, who hope to advance themselves by being exceedingly polite to their masters, sometimes takes queer forms, A certain chief of a government bureau was invited, with others, to dine at the table of the member of the Cabinet who was at the time his superior, During the dinner the bureau chief, who happened to be placed between a door and a window, and who had said nothing at all, began to sneeze. “Are you taking cold, MF, B, ?” asked the member of the Cabinet. ‘+I believe I have that honor and pleasure, sir!" answered the other, bowing very respectfully. — Youth's Companion. Tits is what a young lady is reported recently to have said, apropos of marriage: "Well, no, 1 don't know if I would marry for money alone; but if a man had plenty of money, allied to a sweet disposition, and a moustache that curled at both ends, and nice blue eyes, and a social position ; if he had a distinguished status in a profession, or even as a merchant, and his father was rich and his mother and sisters aristocratic, and he wanted to marry me, and he would promise to let me have my own way in everything, and keep me liberally supplied EN, By Lida Ostrom Vanamee. : The Merriam Company, Eighty-Seven Kisses, New York: Mr. Ro ict. By John Kendrick Bangs. New Yor Brothers. Suppressed Chapters And Other Bootishness. By Robert Bridges. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Princeton Stories. By Jesse Lynch Williams, New York: Charles Scribner s Sons. Forward House, By William Scoville Case. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. When Dreams Come True, York and London: The Transatlantic Company. Tenement Tales of New York. By J. W. Suilivan New York: Henry Hoit and Company. . A Matonna Of The Alps. Translated from the German of B. Schultze-Smidt Nathan Haskell Dole. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. That Eurasian. By Aleph Bey. Chicago and New York: F, Tennyson Neely. Master anit’ Man. By Count Leo Tolstoi. Chicago and New York: F, Tennyson Neely. Celebates, By George Moore. New Vork and Lon. don: Macmillan and Company. Every Day's News, New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, ¢ Counters Bettina, P. Putnam's Sons. A Seamark, A Threnody for Robert Louis Stevenson, By Bliss Carman, Boston: Copeland and Day. New G.W, Dillingham, By Edgar Saltus, New as Publishing New York and London: G. After church Sambo hurried home with his wife, who had overheard the catechising. When they were fairly out of everybody's hearing he drew a long breath of relief and turned a self-approving glance to his better half,‘ Golly,” he said, ina half-cautious whisper, ‘ef he'd er said ducks, I'd be'n a lost niggah, suah."—Hoston Budget. consider marriage a Magazine. For sale by all Newsdcalers n Great Britain. The Tater patiocal News Company, Bream's Building, Chancery Lane, C, England, Aowvrs, Ivory SOAP There is a ‘comfortable feeling” that comes after a bath with Ivory Soap. Te Procren & Gawace Co., Cw HITCHINGS & C0., Horticultural Architects and Builders And Largest Manufacturers of GREENHOUSE HEATING ano VENTILATING APPARATUS. Established so Years. Conservatories, Greenhouses, Palm Housex, Etc., Erected Complete with Our Patent Iron Frame Construction. 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